Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Uhhh... ok so what happened on Nov 10 was that once again we worked very hard on putting together a pre-recorded show. I went to go see Sloan and Tero Melos in Hamden last Monday, because I have never seen Sloan and I really wanted to go. While I was there, I got several texts from friends asking why the show sounded strange, and I'm just like "what do you mean the show sounds strange? What happened this time?"

While driving home afterwards, it became obvious that somehow all of the audio files for '90s Mixtape, Top 10 Jams and Late Night Noise were shuffled so that everything was in the incorrect order, and my voice was announcing songs that had not played. Pretty embarrassing. And frustrating considering how much time goes into putting the whole thing together.

So we went to investigate this problem last night. Based on our observations last night, here's what we think happened.

The file "11 10 14.mpl" - all set to begin playing in the automation computer at 9:07PM on Monday, November 10 - was last seen by us on the evening of November 9th around 12:30AM.

However, when we checked just last night, the file properties state that it was "modified" around 1:15PM on Monday, November 10. Which means that some genius working at WXCI opened "11 10 14.mpl" and (probably by accident) shuffled all of the audio files that had been carefully ordered the day prior. And this genius child not only shuffled the files, but was brilliant enough to hit "SAVE" afterwards (because before you close the program it asks "do you want to save changes?" and often times the instinct is to hit "yes" but what the fuck, this asshole shouldn't have fucking opened the playlist in the first place). (MPL is a "mini-playlist" extension. It sets it up so that an ordered list, separate from the standard master list, can play without interruption by other events such as breakers, PSAs and rotation songs.)

Here's what would have played on '90s Mixtape on Nov 10. Technically all of this songs did get played last Monday night, but scattered throughout the course of a 5 hour period...

So then last night, we tried to make it up to ourselves by playing the Nov 10 Top Ten Jams during the 9PM to 10PM hour, followed by the Nov 17 Top Ten Jams, and a rage-quit version of Late Night Noise that played most of the songs that also were played the week prior. Here's last night's playlist...

Can't say we remember what played during the first hour, but we will say this...

For whatever reason, putting together these pre-recorded shows is time consuming as fuck. And our hopes were to make it so that a show was prepared for Oct 6, 13, 20 and 27. (Nov 3 was the one where Rich filled in, and we were back by Nov 10.)

The first two weeks of shows took way too long to complete. We were looking for a quick fix for the Oct 20 show, and so it was suggested that we make up for neglecting our Mandatory BasedGod spotlight by playing the O5 Fuck Em mixtape in its entirety.

05 Fuck Em is the mixtape Lil B released on Xmas 2013 with 101 songs. We're pretty sure it's his longest mixtape yet, and it's definitely the one with the most throwaways. It's nearly 6 hours long, and contains plentiful profanity. So we got the ok to do this only if it played between midnight and 6AM. And so I'm pretty sure this will go down as the longest Late Night Noise that's ever happened so far.

The first hour was not Lil B, and we'll post the playlist when it becomes available.

Between midnight and 6AM, all 6 hours of uncensored 05 Fuck Em graced the airways of WXCI. Here's the tracklisting...

Well hey lookit that, Ovlov was our guest for Top 10 Jams for the 2nd week in a row, almost as if they never left LOL.

We talked about Gunk splitting up :( and their new band that toured in place of Gunk. And Steve told us the true story about the inspiration for the song "There's My Dini" and we listened to the actual voicemail from Dini that inspired the song.

Some shows were aired that were recorded weeks ahead of time and we forgot to post the playlists, so here they are now...

OVLOV was the special guest for both '90s mixtape and the Top 10 show. Based on the playlist, this is the one where we discussed their show with Polaris in Hamden back on Oct 10 2014. During the top 10 show, we discussed the multitude of quality split-releases that have been taking place throughout 2014.

After this point we just basically took a re-run that's been aired a couple times and that will be taking up the remainder of the night's airtime. It's a show from August 9, 2010, and at the end we added Black Flag's "The Process of Weeding Out."

It's gonna be weird because we'll be announcing what time it is and it won't match up, but whatever... No one is listening anyway.

(the i-doser track is a repeated tone that we played for about 10 minutes, it's supposed to make you feel like you're entering the gates of hell)
Un "Phila (Freedom)"
Rescue One "Chateau 19"
Sonic Youth (bonus noise from Jet Set Experimental Trash)
I-Doser "Gates of Hades"

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

We didn't get to speak about this on the air all that much, but they had the big "Drake Vs. Lil Wayne" celebration up in Mansfield this evening, and apparently Lil Wayne tied up their score with 6 wins a piece. Shocking!

While this was all happening, we were hear kicking off the first "Top Ten Jams" show, preceded by an all-too-quick edition of '90s Mixtape and followed with yet another exciting Late Night Noise (which featured some of the songs that also got played last week for reasons that we'd rather not get into right now lol.)

-TOP 10 JAMS-
Described in the production as "WXCI's ten best songs of the past week," whatever that means. We mentioned before the show started that its purpose is to announce the automation songs that are getting aired most frequently.
10. Spoon "Rainy Taxi"
9. Hospitality "It's Not Serious"
8. Freeman "Couldn't Play My Guitar"
7. Shabbaz Palaces "#Cake"
6. Alex G "Hollow"
5. Sleep "The Clarity"
4. Your Old Droog "Gunsmoke Cologne"
3. Ovlov "The Great Crocodile"
2. Lil B "No Black Person Is Ugly"
1. Caribou "Our Love"

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Jeff called in from Dodgers Stadium in LA to give us the good word on what's been going on with the LA Dodgers. Sharon called in also and we did the Problem Child 2 game to see which one of them had better knowledge in Problem Child 2. Sharon ultimately won the game after she was the first to score 5 points, vs. Jeff's 3 points.

I also played 10 of my favorite songs ever. They are listed below during the "rotation" portion of the show...

[note: The jams from at.the.drive.in, Trail of Dead and Beastie Boys were kinda last minute jams that I wanted to include as personal favorites because this is another one of those cases where I might not be live on the air again for a while. I'm normally not so self-indulgent, but the show before mine did a "favorite songs" show and there's a Thursday morning show kinda doing the same thing throughout the summer. So the 13 favorites played tonight were pretty much my 13 favorite songs. Kinda sorta. Unless I'm forgetting stuff, which is very possible.]

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

We're here chillin at WXCI right now. However, there was no show tonight because of some rain storm that conveniently knocked out the transmitter between 9PM and 1AM. Next week we were planning on taking the week off due to being out of town, but instead we'll be making an effort to pre-record a big show.

What's it?

This blog is associated with a radio program called LATE NIGHT NOISE which airs live on 91.7 WXCI in Danbury, CT Monday nights, normally from 10PM until 1AM (with a post-show of LNN mixes after 1AM). The show focuses within a broad range of experimental music, noisy music, weird music, and outsider artists.